{"id":6065,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/marrying-ex-wife-of-adopted-son\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:23","slug":"marrying-ex-wife-of-adopted-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/marrying-ex-wife-of-adopted-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrying Ex-Wife Of Adopted Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>We  know that the Prophet (pbuh) married the ex-wife of his adopted son.  What I fail to understand is whether it would look ethical to marry my  adopted son&#8217;s wife? There must be hundreds of ladies at that time then  why did the Prophet [pbuh] choose her?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>According  to the Qur&#8217;an the real son is the biological son. Adopted son is not  real son. The Qur&#8217;an condemned the pre-Islamic concept that the adopted  son is just like real son. The people of Pre-Islamic Arabia did not  approve of marrying the ex-wives of the adopted sons. The Qur&#8217;an  corrected this concept. Now we believe that the social construct like  the one you are presenting as ethical is not based on moral principles  and legal injunctions given by God Almighty. Therefore, it would be  perfectly ethical to marry the ex-wife of one&#8217;s adopted son. There seems  to be no valid reason to condemn something as unethical that which the  Almighty Himself specifically declared to be ethical. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-08<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6065\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We  know that the Prophet (pbuh) married the ex-wife of his adopted son.  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There must be hundreds of ladies at that time then  why did the Prophet [pbuh] choose her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162],"tags":[1168,1779,1778,1780],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-marriage","tag-orphans","tag-polygamy","tag-polygamy-in-islam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marrying Ex-Wife Of Adopted Son - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/marrying-ex-wife-of-adopted-son\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marrying Ex-Wife Of Adopted Son - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We know that the Prophet (pbuh) married the ex-wife of his adopted son. 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